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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-14

The Matters Disposed of by the Com
lnissioners at the April Meeting.

The Matters Disposed of by the Com
nissioners at the April Meeting.
Commissioners Walker, Lawton and
Casey were present at the regular monthly
meeting of the County Board yesterday.
A request from Il. II. Macleod Road
Commissioner, for 1000 feet of lumber, to
be used in bridges on the Gun Point road
was referred tn the Committee Oh Roads and
Bridges.
The report of Nj. r. ]. Thomas, the
County Engineer. showed that the Bonaven-
tulc drainage was completed 10y the chain
gang last month, and among other work
don. was the cutting of bitches along the
Waters road and draining south of Estil
avenue. IN ten days furty-threc men dug
nearly two miles OF ditches When the
system of drainage On which Slumun's gang
is engaged is completed many hundred acres
OF land which have heretofore been inacces
siblc viii bc reclaimed.
Hesser's gang was at vorl; the latter part
of March clearing the fright of way on the
Harmon canal
The bids for Che erection Of bridge and
making the cut in the Isle of Hope cause-
way were al rejected because the bidders
did not comply with the requirements in
agreeing to keep the bridge in repairs for
seven years.
The petition of Gugie Bourquin and others
for an election on the fence question was
read but no action was taken.
4 number of applications for relief from
double tax were read and referred to the
proper Committe.
Bisagainst the county amounting to Sl3,-
IA were ordered to be paid.
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THE WAY IT WAS DONE.
THE HOME CLUB BEATEN SIX
STRAIGHT GAMES.

Charleston Wins the Interstate Cham
pionship with Hands Down The Car
olinians to Open the League Season
at Nashville on Saturday - Parker
Signed by the Savannah Management
Other Changes Likely to be Made
Before the Team Goes to Memphis.
The Charleston aggregation" left last
night for Nashville where they will open the
League season on Saturday. What there is
left of Savannah will leave tonight for
Memphis. Manager Powell went away
huggins his championship record
like child hugs IA new doll. 1t
is something new for Charleston
to get more than even games in series, and
six consecutive victories is too much for the
Carolinians to stand up under. 1t fairly
staGgers them Manager Powell and his
mon have made a good many friends in Sa-
vonmah, who want TO see them do i'll Nash
vile just what they did here.
1t was an easy vic' DRY for them yesterday,
although the score does not show it. Somers
pitched against 'Billee" Taylor, and was
very effective. Although . little inclined TO
be wild, bis delivery is phzLlinS in the ex-
tremc. With another weeks practice he
will be in shape to do good work.
The home team made FEVER errors than
in any game yet except one. Reilly, Solners
and Hutchinson did the batting, and Reilly
and SomeIs scored il. the first inning the
only runs that Savannah made. Campau,
who was enormously credited with "n'uff-
ed Ay' in Tuesdays game had very little
to do Grady, Hines and Powell
did the hitting for Charleston.
"Billeen Taylor has ceased to be
q phenomenon, - and his days of usefulness
as pitcher are about over.
About 800 witnessed the game and both
clubs were cheared There was not very
great interest taken, as the game was too
one-sided. The following is the score:
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The Buena Vista Branc,i.

The Buena Vista Patriot, referring to the
Central railroads proposition to aid the
building of the Buena Vista branch, says in
regard to the extension of the line to Ameri-
Gus that the proposition means more than a
mere change of the eastern terminus of the
road from Anderson to Americas
1T is our opinion and the opinion of
many of our people" the Patriot goes on to
say, that the line will eventually run from
Columbus to Americas. We would be glad
to have direct communication with both of
these cities, as the rivalry and competi-
ton between cotton merchants would en-
nance the cotton market wonderfully and we
would be able 20 pay close margins on the
staple. AS we have said before the Column
bus Southern will cut off large per cent
of the passenger and freight traffic, which
formerly passed over the Central lines, from
the west to the southern sea coast. The
Central will soon have a direct connection
between Columbus and Birmingham, and it
seems to us almost necessity ON the part of
that road to cut through from Columbus to
Americas by the way of Buena Vista"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-14
A Cannon-Rall Catcher.

The latest thing in the catching line is G.
B. Blatt. A few days ago a score of men
climbed to the top of the Police Gazette
building in New York to see this wonderful
catcher catch twenty-five pound cannon
ball fred from cannon with half pound
of powder Mr. Blatt is a man of medium
size. He has arms as large and nearly as
hard as the cannon, with green running gear,
that stood on the top of the building with its
mouth open toward Brooklyn. About two
years ago he began playing at ball with a
cannon as pitcher. He catches the ball on a
level with his face, and i'll one encounter
with the missile he wrecked a finger, and,
again, the ball mashed in his beaTc .eSs coun-
| tenance.
Mr.. Batt first made the spectators look
down the gun to see that it had no spring
| concealed in its mouth. Then preliminary
! charge of powder was turned into it and
! fired off, after which Mr.. Blatt took off his
| diamond and other encumbrances, mopped
out the gun and turned the cannon ball into
the muzze. The ball is 5$4 inches round
the waist A charge of powder was put
| into the brecch-loading cannon, and the
| spectators in the front of the gun lodged
behind a chimney. Mr.. Harding stuffed
| pieces of cotton in his ears and took
| his place ut the stern of the gun,
while Mr., Blatt went out thirty feet from
| 1t and looked the cannon square in the
mouth. Fire. said Blatt. Mr.. Harding
pulled the string, the gun Doomed, the hall
sailed gaily up and outward and Blatt
| caught 1t. There was a brief wrestle be-
! tween the missile and the man. and then the
man went down with badly bruised finger
and the ball escaped. Mr. Blatt danced
about the room in agony awhile and then
| declared that he would have another bout
with the ball il il would kill him.
! The cannon was again loaded, and the
catcher, with-a bleeding hand, braced him
self and shouted Fire. The cannon roared,
not very ferorously: the bali shot out, and
| plucky Mr., Blatt caught it, and held it, too.
! Then the spectators applauded and Mr..
! Blatts feat, like the rich young tavoiite OF
| husband hunters, was declared the greatest
catch of the season.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-14
Raymond's Savannah Ventures.

Editor Morning Ne,oS: In your rcmi-
niscences of ''Col. Mulberry Sellers there
are one or two errors in regard TO his ongi-
nal appearance in Savannah You say:
est Andrews Hall, now Turner Halle,
was the scene Of Raymond and
Hamltons venture" The fact is,
their original venture was in the
Savannah Theatre, and they afterward
rented 81. Andrews Hall. Nou further
say: "llamilton, his partner, remained in
Savannah for some time after the collapse
of his theatre and ran an advertising sheet,
which afterwaId became. under other man
a2ement the Savannah boiv tdrel-
Hscr" The fact in this case is that lny-
mond and Hamilton. in connection with
their management of the theatre. started an
advertising sheet called the C0Y Idrrriitcr,
and managed IL Just one week, when they
discovered that they could not do two things
at the same time manage theatre and ran
n paper They prevailed on me ~ take thc
paper part Of the concern Oft their bands.
and the only connection they had with b.
af'erwurd was b. furnish copy for their
theatrical adj Hamilton had no further
connection with 10 uiter bis theatrical fal-
ure. GEORGE =. NICHOLS
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ROne'S Railroads.

The Rome Courier is informed that all
arrangements for the building of a road
from Rome to point on the Western and
Atlantic railroad have been completed
The new road will be only part of the ex-
tension of the Rome and Decatur from Rome
to Gainesville. This road will start from
Printup City and will strike the Western
and Atlantic railroad at Halls mill, or near
there. A corps of engineers will be put on the
line Immediately and the workwill be rapidly
pushed forward that connection with the
Western and Atlantic may be had as soon as
the road from Atlanta TO Rome will be fin
ished
The Rome and Decatur people are work
ing hard and earnestly in the building of
their lines as rapidly as possible. The road
from Alfalfa TO Gadsden will be finished in
few days, and the grading from the latter
city towards Rome will be commenced. AL
ready twenty miles from Rome, with the
exception of a few patches here and there,
have been graded, and as soon as the
bridge across the Oostanaula is finished
tr0ck-laying will be recommended.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-14
WORK FOR THE GRAND JURY.
An Unusual Case Before it for Investi-
cation.

An Unusual Case Before it for Investi-
cation.
At the meeting of the County Commits
sioners yesterday a letter was read from Dr.
r. p. Myers, calling attention to some mu-
sual cases which had come to his notice. DR.
Myers is the attending physician at the
Georgia infirmary He stated in his letter
that some time last January nine colored
men We're sent to the infirmary on one day
The men were poorly clad, and were suf-
fel'ing from various forms of disease. ap-
parently contracted from exposure ard want
of sufficient nouiishment. The physician
says that he was told by the men that they
had been working ON McQueen's Island
grading the Tybee railroad. They had not
been given enough to eat, they said, and theF
stated that they had not been able to get
away from the island. They had no boat
and the contractor would not furnish them
with one to get across Wilmington river
they said Every one of the sick men died
in the Infrmary The physician in charge
reported the matter to the Commissioners
for investigation, and the board referred it
to the grand jury.
The contractor for the Tybee railroad
has been summoned with other witnesses
to appear before the grand jury this after
noon, and an investigation will he begun.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-14
SURPRISES FOR THE BRIDE.
Her Husband Takes Her to Germany to
Meet His First Wife.
From the Pittsbitrg Dispatch

From the Pittsbtrg Dispatch.
! On the arrival of the night express from
Cleveland at the Union depot last night ut
6 O'Clock party of Germans, every thing
about them indicating their nationality, got
out of the cars One was a rather elderly
man. and he was accompanied by his wife
and several small children. The party was
completed by good-looking man of about
forty -tive, to whose arm chung very coniid-
ingly remarkably pretty young woman not
much over twenty. There was nothing I'M
usual or peculiar about any of them.
After they had proceeded on their journey
| on board the Eastern express reporter
| learned that there were some extraordinary
circumstances attached to them The con
ductor of the train in which they came from
| Cleveland told the story. He said:
/ Il got into conversation with the elderly
man in the party after we left Cleveland.
! He told me they were all from SanduSky
and bound for Germany. The pretty young
! woman had attracted every bOdy's attention.
/ | asked him who she was and he replied that
! she was the bride of the man who sat beside
her He had come ont from Germany a
| year ago, leaving wife and family behind
| him. Notwithstanding this he had paid his
| addresses to the young woman as a single
man and finally married her. To make
! things even mere eXtIaVagant, the bigamist
was taking the young girl he had pretended
to make his bride to his native place, where
his other wife and children awaited him.
The elderly man told me all this quite coolly
| He didn't seem to think il was crime he
was an accomphce to- He had known the
guilty man in Germany, and that seemed to
ease his conscience. ! could do nothing, of
course All the parties seemed respectable
people, and the one who talked to me told
me that he was going back for time to
Germany because the lime-water of San
duslly had not agreed with his family. He
said they had secured berths on the steam
ship Fulda."
1t was discovered from another source
that the name OF the man alleged to be a
bigalnst is Wilhelm Maegerstein, while
his brides maiden name is probably Katrina
| Nelose. The other family is named klug,
and one of their trunks bore railroad tab
with the word "Coblenzn upon it, from
which it is supposed that that town is their
| destination
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-14
AN ELoPER's HONEYMOON.
Constable George Jones and Mrs. Kate
EIcEVady Enjoying 1t.

Constable George Jones and Mrs. Kate
McE9ady Enjoying 1t.
George Z. H. Jones a constable Of the Sec
ond Georgia Militia district, and Mrs Kate
McEvady, plump and huxSome brunette,
nave not been heard from by their friends
in this city. and are believed to he enjoying
the clippers honeymoon. Jones has not been
seen here since early last week, and Mrs.
NcEvady disappeared about the same time.
The latter is the wife of a Waterman, and
while ne was away from home at nights the
constable wooed
The constable first met his inamorata last
January when he served some warrants in
a case in which she was the prosecutriX. Their
acquaintance rapidly ripcncd, and each was
smtten with the tender passion. In the
course of three months they came to love
each other so ardently that the wife decided
TO slip the marital knot which bound her.
She owned a little property in Robertsvlla.
and il is reported that she quietly disposed
OF that aud pOc1cted the money without her
husbands knowledge.
one l1lmOr is that she got $500 for it., al
though others say that il was as much a,
81 l00 On the day before he left Jones told
friend that he was going to Texas to buy
SOME cattle, and remarked that he had $500.
1t IS said that he was seen in jacksonville
last week His acquaintance think that he
went to Cuba, and thence probably to Texas
or Mexico He was quite a large man
physically, and has been a constable and jail
guard for a number of years
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-14
The Mobile and Girard Extension.

Columbus is absorbed in new railroad
projects. It is given out, ON good authori-
ty that the extension of the Mobile and
Girard railroad to Pollard, Ala, is settled
fact The corps which has been engaged in
surveying the proposed extension of the
Columbus and Rome railroad has been
called in. and will be put to work at once
surveying the route from Troy TO Pollard.
The Mobile and Girard has found this ex-
tension necessary in view of the projected
line from Montgomery to Chattahoochee,
III.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-14
THE PUBLIC BUILDING.

The u. S. Grand Jury Urges It's Early
Erection.
The United States Circuit Court grand
jury reported a resolution yesterday asking
Judge Emory Specr 30 urge the proper
authorities 30 hasten the erection Of the new
public building. The resolution set forth
that the present location and arrangement
OF the post Office and Of the United States
Court rooms are unsuitable impede the
transaction of public business aud occasion
unnecessary discomfort ~ all persons IN any
mHmof interested therein
The grand july was excused until the sec
ul MONDAY iu MAY
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Sale of tho Cuthbert Roadbed.

A CuthbeIt correspondent of the MORN
ING News writes that the owners of the old
Columbus, Cuthbert and cambridge rail
road bed went to Albany Monday to close
the sale Of the road, which is graded from
Cuthbert to Bainbrdge, TO the Birmingham,
Georgia and Florida Railroad Company. 1t
is thought that it will commence work i'm
mediately as the company promised the
subscribers to the road that it would com
plete il from Cuthbert 20 cambridge by
Feb I, 1888 The road, when built, will be
of incalcuable benefit TO Cuthbert and the
surrounding country
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NOTHING BUT A BUBBLE.
The Central Railroad Not After the
BRUNSWICK and Western.

BRUNSWICK ana w 6SCern.
Some of the papers throughout the State
have published a rumor stating that the
Central railroad of Georgia is about to
secure control Of the Brunswick apd West
ern. According to one report the deal is to
be consummated tomorrow.
The matter was mentioned yesterday to
Gen Alexander and he remarked that it
was news to him, and that there is alb
solutely no warrant for the report
The rImor seems to have grown out of
the visit TO Brunswick of Mr.. John c. Cal
houn, Pat Calhoun, ESQ, directors of the
Central, and Mr.. NJ. S. Belllnap, the roads
General Manager From Brunswick they
went up to Albany in a private car, and
then took a run over the Southwestern road.
Some attached significance TO the visit of
the officials to Brunswick, just as the resi-
dents of Port Royal did TO Vanderb It's
visit to their town, but the Central's Presi-
dent says there is nothing in it, The report
| that the Central is after the Brunswick and
| Western is an old one that was widely cir
culated about three years ago, and has got
| to be sort of a chestnut"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-14

Earned rlnS--CharleStOn /.
Two base hits-Grady, Powell, Reilly,
Three base hits-Hutchinson.
Left on bases-Savannah, z; Charleston, 6.
Double plays-Glenn and Mclaughlin.
Struck out-By Somers 3; Taylor, ,.
Bases from being hit by pitched ball-By
Somers 2
Passed balls-Dallas I.
Wild Pitches-SonlerS. ,.
Bases stOlen-Hines, Powell, McAdamj.
Time of game-Two hours.
Umpire-Jones.
Nothing further has been heard from
Manager Morton since his telegram to the
directors on Tuesday 1t is expected though
that he will join the club at Memphis on
Saturday with several new players and that
the team will start the league race with its
weakest points strengthened. Parker, who
caught in Tuesdays game, has been signed
and will be a valuable acquisition to the
team. A meeting of the directors will be
held this afternoon before the club leaves
for Memphis and several other changes are
likely to be made
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-14
HEAVY DAMAGES.
H. c. Beck Gets $13,75O Against the
Charleston and Savannah.

The suit of H. c. Beck against the
Charleston and Savannah Railway Company
for $4,000 damages was argued yesterday
by X. G. Erwin, Esq, for the defendant, and
A. II, Cox, Esq, and Col Rufus f. Lester
for the plaintiff. The defendant claimed
that Beck was not of sound mind before the
accident when he was injured. The COM
pany declared that if he had been sound in
mind he would not have allowed his head to
strike the water tank along the track. The
jury remained out an hour, and returned a
verdict in favor of Beck for S13, 80
A motion will be made for a new trial,
and the court will be asked to set the YER
dict aside ON the ground that it is exorbitant.
Beck is about % years old He declared in
his bill that he has been unable TO work
since the accident, which occurred in July,
1884, at Monteith. He charged the company
with negligence in running the train too
fast
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-14
STRIPES FOR SMITH.
A Letter Thief to go to the Penitentiary
for One Year.

A Letter Theft to go to the Penitentiary
for One Year.
Henry Smith, negro boy, was convicted
in the United States District Court yester-
day of stealing letter that was in the Gus
tody Of the postal department.. The letter
was one of several that were stolen from the
Anderson street depot of the City
and Suburban Railway Company
about March .. The particulars
Of the case were published in the MORNING
NEWS at the time. Smith got nearly $50
from THE letter. The money belonged TO
the matron of the Episcopal Orphans Home
Smiths display of cash, which was lavish
for a car driver, first attracted suspicion to
him. Judge Speer sentenced him to one
year in the Albany county IN. " peniten-
tiary.
.Illoe Small was found guilty of stealing
Ratchet out of the Custom House building
and was sentenced To pay a fine of SIS and
all costs or serve two months in the Chat
ham county Jail
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-14
"Scarlet Fever"

Having appeared in our village Dnrbys
Prophylactic Fluid was used for dsInfectmg
the College buildings. Tho disease never
went beyond single case, either IN the
COLLEGE or elsewhere where the Flud wa.
used. REV PINS. g. f. PRIcE. Auburn.
Ala
Dnrbys FLUID dlspcls all forms of epidemic
dismsr 10y destroying the spores or germ
poison that causes cOntagiOn
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-14
Harnett House.

Concerning u popular hotel in Savannah,
Ga. the Florida Time. Union says: we
not" from the hotel arrivals as published in
the savannah papers, that the Huinett
House still leads M The other hotels in the
city In fat they have ~ many ns the
others combined There Is "a good install.
ment ol Floridimn always Registered There %
tister suits. all marked in plain figures which
will asionlah you for children Boys and Gents.
at Appel a sthaura
hDH spring styles n Hate Gents Furnishing
npods. ric., "a Appel a 5ehauls, l0I cougrssa
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-14
The Most Reliable to be Obtained.

A good deal has been said in praise of the
Farmer Girl, but not enough TO halfway
impress one with an idea OF the merits Of
this standard stove. Persons who are using
in their favor and 20 at once testify to their
genuine worth. Every point that could Ice
desired in these really most important arti-
cles IN households is combined in the Farmer
Girls. For sale by Lowell q baltimore,
Hardware and Stoves, l5j and lji Congress
street
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'. w. DAVID. Signal Corps, U. S. Arm,
Big Drives in Boys Clothing.

A. R. Altmayer & Co. will offer to-day
the following special bargains: IS Boys Kilt
Suits at S9c., worth 81 80; 230 Boys Cassi-
mere Suits, Knee Pants, size to II years
at 81 -, S. and 81 each, regular price 81 30,
a and s. 10. Also s. pairs Boys Knee
Pants at 35c. and Soc, worth SOC. and 15c
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-14

The height Of the river at Augusta at
/ :}3 o'clock p. m. yesterday augusta time
was 6.S feet--no change during the past "A
hours.
Comparative statement of temperature at
Savannah April Is, 1886, and 1887:
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The Bell Buoy Adrift.

The bell buoy marking the end of Tybee
knoll spit, at the entrance of the Savannah
river, is adrift from its position, and has
grounded IN LnMretto creek. Com. Lam
perton, OF the Light House Board for this
district. announces that another buoy will
~ placed m posltOn ns soon ns poN,ible
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-14
Nashville Knocked Out.

NASHVILLE, April 13.--Nashville was
completely done up by Detroit to-day The
score was ~ to 2. The game was full of
errors and was uninteresting The batteries
were; Nashville, Hayes and Mannion; De
troit, Getzein and Briody.
Errors: Nashville II, Detroit ?. Base hits:
Nashville s, Detroit 15
INNINGS.
Detroit. ............O , 4 o x-12
Nashville ........ 0 0 0 o. ,
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A Thunder storm

May purify thc air. but nothing except So
z1Dosr viii purify the mouth nllod with nr.
g'ofHd teeth. aud rescue tlo-e faithful -or-
taui Oi mankind from utter ruin before II
ir ip1 bate Don't ncglet iD try a. You
"ili bo aunHiaod aud delighted with H. fe.
nUts